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Financial Crisis

“THERE IS NO MEANS OF AVOIDING THE FINAL COLLAPSE OF A BOOM BROUGHT ABOUT BY CREDIT EXPANSION. THE ALTERNATIVE IS ONLY WHETHER THE CRISIS SHOULD COME SOONER AS THE RESULT OF A VOLUNTARY ABANDONMENT OF FURTHER CREDIT EXPANSION OR LATER AS A FINAL AND TOTAL CATASTROPHE OF THE CURRENCY SYSTEM INVOLVED.”, Mises

“The essence of a credit-expansion boom is not overinvestment, but investment in wrong lines, i.e., malinvestment.”, Mises

“The curious task of Economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.”, Hayek

Political Crisis

“Representative democracy cannot subsist if a great part of the voters are on the government pay roll. If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other benefits from the treasury, democracy is done for.”, Mises

Social Crisis

“The first and most fundamental principle, therefore, if one would undertake to alleviate the condition of the masses, must be the inviolability of private property.”
Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum

“The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.”, Margaret Thatcher

Statistics

‎”If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.”, Coase

Life

“Your Focus determines Your reality”, Qui Gon Jin (SW)

“All you have to do, is to decide what to do with the time that is given to you”, Mithrandir (LOTR)

“No, we cannot [win the battle]. But we are going nonetheless”, Theoden (LOTR)

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm”, Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nobody can prevent you from choosing to be exceptional”, Mark Sanbron

“Make your life itself a creative work of art”, Mike Ray

“If you can dream it, you can do it”, Walt Disney

“Do one thing every day that scares you”, Eleanor Roosevelt

“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less”, General Eric Shinseki

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change”, Charles Darwin

“In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”, George Orwell

HENRY FORD
“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”
“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
“Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.”
“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.”
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”
“There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.”
“The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. ”
“If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.”
“Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.”
“What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.”
“Don’t find fault, find a remedy.”
“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
“You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.”
“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.”
“Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.”
“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.”
“There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.”
“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”